Car Commercials, the good, the bad, and the annoying!

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Would have thought VW would move on from their silly commercial of 3 guys out for a ride in a VW beetle convertible on a cold day with top down. The driver goes into a store and scares people with his mask on. Too many commercials apparently written by teen-age boys and for teen-age boys who don't have money or job to buy a new car.

A lot of middle aged guys are just teenaged boys who haven't moved on. When their leash-holding wife or daughter makes them buy that Beetle, the commercial will make them think it's something other than what it is.

Cool, but 2 minutes + is not really a commercial. They need to make it 60 seconds or less, and put it on TV. It's just a marketing/PR piece, as is. But nice to see them acknowledge the past, they have some interesting cars.

Funny a guy who has all that would just drive an Acura. Why would he live such an opulent lifestyle and be such a relative cheapskate about his ride? I picture a dude like that in an S63 AMG. The average Acura driver probably lives in a cardboard and Tyvek McMansion in some tacky new development, stops at Starbucks for a coffee, then goes to his mundane job in an anonymous office park.

The average Acura driver probably lives in a cardboard and Tyvek McMansion in some tacky new development, stops at Starbucks for a coffee, then goes to his mundane job in an anonymous office park.

House and surroundings not all that opulent in commercial.

In a news clip on national tv a couple years ago, our U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, was seen in front of his house with an Acura TL 04-08 vintage. Seems that Mr Holder has quite an "above average" job, has a prestigious office and chooses to drive a TL.

Nowhere near as lame as the ads by MB, BMW and some others that mysteriously have disappeared from TV. Those showing the cars sliding around on gravel or sand. Dumb. Nothing to aspire to in driving style. Nobody drives that way except perhaps top world drivers in real race cars in the WRC and similar rally-races. And, their driving style is purposeful. Not for a silly tv commercial.

Notice he wakes up with no luxury wife beside him? Maybe she's already out shopping in her ML/RX etc, or she's ran off, leaving him with the played out "modern" house and a pile of bills. It's definitely a middle manager's car.

I suspect the 35 year old yuppie from 1985 in his 325i isn't lining up for the RLX in 2013.

Get out of flyover country and check housing. A house like that in my zipcode, nicely sited and shown, would easily hit 7 figures. It would be similar in much of the west coast and from DC north, or even in the lush areas just northwest of Chicago. Boring modern houses are trendy now.

TL is kind of apples to oranges - not the top model, and the 04-08 was a clean design with usually reasonable prices. This new age RL looks like a 5:4 scale Accord, has enough headlights for 6 cars, a beak - and costs as much as the Germans. It has some interesting tech, but I don't know if they are going about this the best way.

Sometimes I think that entire ad is meant to be sarcastic or ironic. But somehow, I think it is serious. Someone else suggested a better variant - guy is in a normal residence with boring normal things, then comes out to his "luxury" car, which makes everything else seem unimportant.